How much does one Turo car really leave you each month?

October 8, 2026 · 3 min read · The FleetWise team · Turoprofitcalculator

Turo shows you what a trip paid. It does not tell you what the car left you after the payment, the insurance and the repairs. This guide shows a simple way to find out for one car in one month, using only numbers you already know.

This is general information, not tax or accounting advice. It leaves out taxes and depreciation on purpose. Ask your accountant how to treat each item in your situation.

The five numbers you need

1. Average daily rate. What a booked day brings in, on average.
2. Days booked per month. Out of 30, how many days the car is on a trip. Written as a percentage, this is your occupancy.
3. The platform fee. The share Turo keeps. It depends on the protection plan you chose for that car, so use the percentage from your own account and do not borrow someone else's.
4. Your fixed costs per month. Car payment, insurance and anything else you pay whether the car is booked or not.
5. Your variable costs per month. Maintenance and repairs, cleaning and supplies, parking, tolls you pay yourself.

The calculation

• Booked income = daily rate × days booked
• Income after the fee = booked income − the platform fee
• What is left = income after the fee − all your costs

A worked example (illustrative numbers)

Say the average daily rate is $75 and the car is booked 65% of the month, which is 19.5 days. Your plan keeps 25%. Your costs are a $450 car payment, $150 of insurance, $80 of maintenance, $60 of cleaning and $40 of other costs.

• Booked income: 75 × 19.5 = $1,462.50
• Platform fee at 25%: $365.63
• Income after the fee: $1,096.88
• Costs: 450 + 150 + 80 + 60 + 40 = $780
• What is left: about $317 a month, or roughly $3,800 a year at this pace.

The number that helps most: break-even days

Divide your monthly costs by what one booked day brings in after the fee.

In the example, one booked day brings in 75 × 0.75 = $56.25 after the fee. Costs of $780 divided by $56.25 is about 13.9 days, which is about 46% of the month. Below that, the car loses money. Above it, every extra day is margin.

Looking at break-even tells you what to fix. If the car needs 46% to cover itself and you are booked 65%, you have room. If it needs 70% and you are booked 55%, raising the price or cutting a cost matters more than getting more bookings.

What this number does not include

• Taxes. Nothing here is a tax calculation.
• Depreciation. The car loses value every month. This is a cash view of the month, not the full cost of owning the car.
• Your own time. Cleaning, key handoffs and messages are work you may or may not count.
• Months that are not typical. A single month can mislead. Use the average of a few.

Try it with your own numbers

We built a free calculator that does this. It runs in your browser and saves nothing: profit per car calculator.

When you want the real numbers

A calculator uses your estimates. To see what each car actually left you, you need your real trips and your real expenses in one place. FleetWise reads your Turo files, in English or Spanish, records each trip once and shows profit per car. It does not ask for your Turo password and does not use a browser extension: you forward your Turo emails or upload your CSV files. The Free plan covers up to 3 cars.

If you want to see what your Turo file already says before you do anything else, you can use the free Turo CSV checker.